Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Family Values

Job 13: 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians
of no value.

Well here we go again, yet another heinous school shooting.
I remember back in 2000 when my son was old enough to start school, I knew in
my heart that it was a bad idea. I could feel the winds of change although
there had been no school shootings in my area, I was not going to send my kid
to a government run, bureaucratic system.

There have been over one hundred school shootings since 1980
and a massive amount of fatal deaths in those shootings. Statistically it began
ascending after the Columbine incident and to this day is a growing trend in
America. That’s not taking into consideration the massive shootings in malls
and movie houses.

What is happening in America that people just want other
people dead because either their life isn’t as good as the next person’s, or
they’re mentally unstable, or they’re angry at a country which is failing them.

I follow the vile hatred of these stories in disbelief.
While others think I have rose colored glasses on and am blind to the world
around me, I AM aware. I find it quite silly to place blame. No, school
shootings are not our government’s fault, guns are not to blame, the ease of
getting guns are not to blame. The mind is to blame. Self value is to blame!

Somewhere along the line we lost the value in life. These
days we glorify death, we support the smarmy entertainment business, (yes, even
Christians who say they can’t stand this and that are supporting the sleaze that
comes through the box!)

I hear so many couples (with kids more times than not) say
they can’t make ends meet. They can’t afford their two cars, clothes that they
worked for, no less, eating out five or six times a month, they can’t afford the
cable bills or electric bills and barely have food for the kids. What?

Sure blame the husband because he’s tired of having no
money. Blame the wife for having too many shoes that she DESERVES; blame,
blame, blame!! Here we go. The modern family has two people working (to barely
make ends meet) the kids are off in a school system where parents allow the
system to raise their children, so they can make ends meet, mind you. And what
value do parents place on their children?

Sure we live in a society of let me buy you this let me buy
you that. Buy materials, you’ll be happy. Enjoy trash on TV, you’ll be happy.
Have two cars, buy steaks, eat out at restaurants, you’ll be happy.

Guess what people, YOU’RE NOT HAPPY!! You’re a devalued
human being, being manipulated by materials and you’re ALLOWING it to happen
instead of taking a stance for your FAMILY and family VALUES!

Kids are having kids, they become hard to handle so they put
them on drugs. ADHD drugs that from every commercial I see come with a warning: May
cause suicidal tendencies. This is what the kid’s flipping out and killing
people were more than likely on as a child. Their mother’s, who became
divorced, couldn’t handle the wild child, and placed him on meds. We
lost value of life along the way of medication and an over abundance of
materials. The media is saturating society with what they THINK people want to
see, and people claim to hate it but the majority is watching it and buying
into the devaluing of society.

We no longer value marriage, we no longer WANT to spend time
with the kids, we’d rather put them in front of a TV and let a game system
raise them. We over feed them on takeout food, we’d rather work to make more
money so we can have luxuries of the world. A tainted crop of humans has
emerged and it is not pretty.

Blame evil, blame satan, blame the government, blame
everything but yourselves who are showing as much lack of control as these very
angry students. Just because you don’t wield a gun doesn’t mean you’re NOT to
blame. YOU are enabling them. You are feeding their fire with every meal and tv
show, every luxury you bathe in, YOU are to blame.

My son just graduated high school. He CHOSE to go the last
four years but he soon discovered it wasn’t HIM who had the societal problem it
was society itself. He was taught the rights of Americans and realized he
really had none at all. He has CHOSEN not to go to college so as not to burden
himself with the money it will cost. And while people frown on his decision and
almost laugh at his indecision, I think he made the right decision. He’s
thinking of his future while the naysayers are thinking of MONEY in his future.
Yeah blame me, his mother, whose life does NOT revolve around money and
materials. I taught my son that.

2 Cor. 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you;
and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the
children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Parents need to stop owning children and raise them instead.
Values are taught at an early age and you can’t tell a sixteen year old that
what he is doing is wrong when he was allowed all his life not to respect
morality.

We need to change. We need to put family values back in this
world. I think returning to a one person working household is a start. I know
you’ll say, “But we can’t AFFORD to be a one person working household.” And
I’ll say why? WHAT is it you won’t be able to afford? Cable? Get rid of it. New
shoes? Wear the ones you have! Take-out food? Cook at home. This alone will
save you HUNDREDS each month!

How are we as adults going to teach our kids responsibility
if we ourselves can’t even sacrifice for the luxuries we want and put our NEEDS
first? It’s going to be a hard climb back into morality and values when our
eyes are fixed on blaming everyone and everything else for the situations we
find ourselves in.

God is not to blame! Satan is not to blame! Our government
is not to blame! Guns are not to blame! YOU my friend, are to blame. When we
start taking responsibility for our own selves, that is when the blame game
will end and morals in society will surface and we can begin placing a value on
life.

Rom. 30:28-32 And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are
not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.